Taught to Exceed Expectations

Leticia Skai Young ‘95 and her husband, chef Raymond Mohan, combined their Caribbean roots and long food histories to open LoLo’s Seafood Shack in Harlem in 2014. She attributes this entrepreneurial spirit to her days at Brearley. “I learned to be a person who has to live up to my own standards, not to measure myself by other people’s,” she says. “When women—when anyone—focuses like that, they tend to far exceed everyone’s expectations. Especially their own.”